Sally J,
Thanks for your gardening. Would you put the question mark in a different
position? I often ask this in the (overlong) sentences I use where a
question gradually truns into a statement about something else.
Colin
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From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: Walking
>I realy like this Colin for me just needed a bit of pruning I bracketed a
>feww ords here and there. It is a very thoughtful and meaningful poem for
>me. Best wishes SallyJ
>
>>From: Colin Dewar <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Walking
>>Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000
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>>Walking downhill with Lucy
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>>Because we are quiet the moment lasts.
>>The sun outside the spruce lights the roe,
>>before a footstep in the clearing sends it away.
> How much time until
>>your shoulder is too high to hold -
>>to ask that you see what's there in every space
>>you come to?( before you change it?)
>>
>>When you look (for it) you find your familiar self
>>in the black mirror of the lochan,
>>not the (any) self felt by hare or roe deer.
>>Clouds come and go, make what they will of this temporary moon.
>>Water lies stilled as memory,
>>(as) when you come to (other ) people
>>they appear, (as you) recalled from every room you've known.
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